EFFECT OF BONES ON DAIRY FARMS.
As au evidence of the great value of a dressing of bone-dust upon dairy farms, we have the testimony of an English agricultural writer of high repute, and the author of a Royal Agricultural Society's Prize Essay. This gentleman states that since bone-manures have been applied to the Cheshire pnatur«a, tho pvodnnt of tho SOll ill herbage and cheese has been greatly increased ; in many cases have been actually doubled. The increase of stock kept in the locality has been 30 to 50 per cent, and in one case, of a farm of 180 acres, the number of feeding stock has been enlarged from 20 cows and 3 colts, to 35 cows, 8 feeding beeves, 16 yearlings and heifers, 5 horses and 3 colts. But at the same time it is true, the quality of the chees» has been to some extent deteriorated, except where the most skilful management has been applied to the manufacture ; the richer herbage being found to produce milk which requires the greatest care and kill in every step of its manufacture into cheese.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2081, 3 January 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)
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184EFFECT OF BONES ON DAIRY FARMS. North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2081, 3 January 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)
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